Loading bitmaps without win32

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Loading bitmaps without win32

I was wondering If anyone here knows how to load bitmaps into a console window without using win32 specific code. I know I have to use BITMAPFILEHEADER, BITMAPINFOHEADER, and RBGQUAD, but I haven't found a way to load the file and supply those above structures with the bitmap information.